Several commands are available in Windows that allow you to shutdown or restart a local or remote computer. In this article, we’ll look at how to use the shutdown command…
ClamAV is an open-source antivirus. It is used to detect viruses, trojans, and malware. It is mostly used on Linux platforms to scan user directories accessible over FTP or Samba,…
Cron is a task scheduler for Unix-based systems including all Linux distros. The cron daemon works in the background on your host and runs scheduled tasks according to the schedule.…
In this article, we will show how to configure routing and manage network routes on Linux using the ip command on Linux CentOS (how to view the routing table, add/remove…
Parted is a PARTition EDitor for Linux to create, format, delete, shrink and extend disk partitions. The tool is easy to use and available in all Unix/Linux distros. A GUI…
In this article we will discuss how to check the performance of a disk or storage array in Linux. IOPS (input/output operations per second) is the number of input-output operations…
In my work, I sometimes come across a problem when Linux is booted with the “Welcome to emergency mode” message. Most often, this problem occurs after an emergency power outage on…
In this article we will explore some methods of table/database compression and defragmentation in MySQL/MariaDB, that will help you to save space on a disk a database is located on.…
PHP-FPM (Fast Process Manager) is a separate implementation of FastCGI to run PHP scripts. You can use a combination of NGINX web server (processing static) and PHP-FPM to build a…
The standard (official) RHEL/CentOS repositories offer a small number of basic packages that do not always contain the latest versions of programs. However, you can use third-party public or private…